Upon robbing a royal coach, Autolycus (Bruce Campbell) comes across an important scroll announcing that a royal ball is to be held so that Prince Alexandros of Antioch (Mark Raffety) can find a bride. Autolycus immediately pays a visit to his former love interest, the voluptuous showgirl Cupcake (Lacey Kohl). He proposes that she pose as a princess and accompany him to the ball. Cupcake reluctantly agrees, believing that Autolycus is genuinely trying to fix her up with a prince. In reality, however, Autolycus' plan is to use her as a decoy so he can steal the famous sapphire of Antioch from Alexandros' castle. Meanwhile, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Iolaus (Michael Hurst) meet with King Georgas of Carpathia (Patrick Smith), who is furious with the Prince of Antioch. He tells them that the prince has already burned two of his villages to the ground and is about to attack the border town of Perthia where Carpathians and Antiochans peacefully co-exist. Hercules pleads with the king to give him two days to sort out the problem and Georgas hesitantly agrees. By the time Hercules and Iolaus make it to Perthia, the village is already in turmoil. A man by the name of Flectus (Jason Te Kare) has set fire to a Carpathian bakery and the Carpathians and Antiochans are at each other's throats. Hercules and Iolaus make it just in time to douse the fire and end the fighting before things get completely out of hand. Hercules orders both groups of villagers to keep a truce until he can figure out what's really going on. He then tells Iolaus to go keep an eye on Prince Alexandros while he brings King Georgas to Antioch.
In the meantime, Autolycus is busy drilling Cupcake on how to speak, look and act like royalty. But before they arrive at the ball, Prince Alexandros' prime minister, Vitron (Huntly Eliott), announces that the Carpathians have launched a full-scale war. Just when the prince beckons Vitron to ready his troops, Iolaus enters to tell him that Hercules is bringing King Georgas to his castle to negotiate a settlement. But the prince does not believe that Georgas is coming in peace and orders death to all Carpathians. At that moment, Cupcake arrives and is introduced as Hermia, Princess of Carpathia, the alias she's been given by Autolycus. Alexandros' guards sieze her at once, but Iolaus is able to convince the prince that King Georgas would never have sent his daughter if he had meant harm to the Antiochans. Intoxicated by her beauty, Alexandros takes Cupcake by the hand and agrees to wait for Hercules and the king.
Back in Perthia, Flectus is preparing to torch several huts when Hercules stops him. After Flectus tells Hercules that he is only following King Georgas' orders, Hercules insists on taking him to see the king. Through an ingenious ploy, Hercules soon reveals that it was Antioch's Prime Minister Vitron, not Georgas, who put Flectus up to starting trouble in Perthia. Back at the Antioch castle, the ball is now in full swing. Cupcake makes a dazzling entrance and Prince Alexandros is totally smitten with her "regal" beauty, charm and bearing. Meanwhile, Vitron and his comrade Darsus (Wade Jackson) become more and more frustrated that war has not broken out so they continue to work on a plan to kill the prince. Shortly after Alexandros and Cupcake slip away to his throne room, they find themselves under attack by Carpathian soldiers. The prince is devastated, believing that Cupcake has betrayed him. Autolycus and Iolaus leap into the fray to help, but our heroes are outnumbered and Alexandros is stabbed by the traitor Vitron. As Cupcake attends to the new love of her life, Hercules arrives, takes out the remaining Carpathian soldiers and captures Vitron before he can escape. When King Georgas appears on the scene, he informs Alexandros that he only wants peace between them. Cupcake takes off when it is revealed that she is not the real Princess Hermia of Carpathia. But the wounded prince, who has already fallen madly in love with her, runs after her and asks her to marry him. Later, a depressed Autolycus leaves the castle with Hercules and Iolaus. This ordeal has made him realize that he was still in love with Cupcake, whom he has now lost forever. But he tells his two friends that at least he's leaving with one shiny memory. Suddenly, Hercules and Iolaus rush back to the castle to find that Autolycus has successfully made off with the sapphire of Antioch after all.
Starring: Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Michael Hurst (Iolaus)
Guest Starring: Lacey Kohl (Cupcake), Mark Raffety (Alexandros), Bruce Campbell (Autolycus), Patrick Smith (King Georgas), Huntly Elliot (Vitron), Jason Te Kare (Flectus), Angela Shirley (Princess Hippolyta), Chic Littlewood (Attendant), Anthony Martin (Antioch Man), Wade Jackson (Darsus), Bruce Davis-Goff (Carpathian Man), Campbell Rouselle (Terrorist)
Written by Gene O'Neill & Noreen Tobin
Directed by Rick Jacobson